Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with
respect to the sources of variation in their language learning environments, as well as the …

In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

“Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely
homogeneous speech-community, who knows its (the speech community's) language …

To date, the vast majority of research on the linguistic abilities of heritage speakers has
focused on young adults whose heritage language is no longer develo**. These adults …

This article has two main goals. The first is to summarize and comment on the current state
of affairs of generative approaches to SLA (GenSLA), 35 years into its history. This …

The present study examines the development of grammatical gender assignment,
agreement, and noun-adjective word order in child heritage Spanish among thirty-two …

This study investigates child heritage speakers' Spanish direct objects. A task designed to
elicit direct objects was completed in Spanish and English by 40 child heritage speakers of …